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The game is Steam Deck Verified ahead of release, but as we know that isn't always a good indication that a game will run well on Deck.

However a multiplayer beta has given us our first look at it actually running on the deck, and it's able to hit 90fps on the OLED deck at medium settings.

Check the article for more details, but here's the key part:

Whenever a game has some form of anti-cheat included or is online-focused, I worry whether it will run on Steam Deck or fully support the online modes. Not only does Elden Ring Nightreign boot up fine, but it also plays well even in multiplayer sessions. Before getting to recommended settings, I set the game to the low preset to see how much performance I could get out of it at 720p. In the four hours I've spent on Steam Deck with it in multiplayer and a bit more playing solo, the former is definitely more demanding. I had a few instances where it dropped to the mid 20s in very particle-heavy moments, but it otherwise held a frame rate of above 30fps very well.

The author also mentions setting everything as low as it could go, but that they were unable to hit 60fps.

The TL;DR: The game won't launch on current steamOS, but preview build 3.7.6 fixes the launch issue.

Unfortunately the game is unable to maintain decent frame rates even with severe reductions in graphical settings.

The drastic decrease in performance compared to Doom 2016/Doom Eternal is due to the game using mandatory ray tracing for lighting.

It's possible that we'll see some patches or mods that improve performance, but at launch it will not be a good deck experience.

EDIT: Not sure why Lemmy is embedding that youtube video, there's an actual article about the performance, and there's a different video on how the Steam Deck itself actually performs with the game.

The game is supposed to come out on PC sometime in June.

From reading about the performance, sounds like it probably should have been rated "playable" instead of verified.

That said, this is pretty cool because this was one of those games that was absolutely unplayable on deck at release.

This is also encouraging for our chances of having Doom Dark Ages be playable since I think they're using the same engine. Doom games are usually optimized really well, so I'm hoping it will run better than this.

The game has ACE anti-cheat that blocks it from running on desktop. They've made an exception for steam deck to let the game run, but it seems like it only works with the LCD deck. A very odd situation

It is a UE5 game, so don't expect it to run great. But it's verified and the minimum specs requirements are in line with other high end titles that run acceptably on the deck.

Edit: performance first impressions from SteamDeckHQ. Sounds like it runs and a pretty consistent 30fps, with some small dips outside near large groups of people. Reviewer was using XESS upscaling on performance.

I've been playing this through proton for awhile now, and it's a lot of fun. 1v1 death matches are really intense, and the game has a huge variety of maps and weapons.

The monetization is great too, completely free with an optional $5 dlc that adds more maps and hats.

Games can have different assets downloads for desktop vs Deck, you don't need 4k textures and videos for Deck games.

For FF7 Rebirth, the desktop download is 144GB but the Deck download is a significantly reduced 88GB.

I'm really excited about this one, so hearing that it will run well on deck is fantastic news.

Various players have been reporting a "Fatal error" being encountered when trying to play any of them. However, there's two workarounds I know of to get around it. What's interesting is that this might be specific to the Steam Deck OLED, as it's to do with HDR not working. So you can try this launch option first:

DXVK_HDR=0 %command%

To do this. Go into the game in your Steam Library, over to the little cog icon on the right for the Properties, and put that in the Launch Options box.

Another potential workaround is to force DirectX 12 for it:

%command% -dx12

You can re-enable these options by using the SteamDeck=0 %command% launch option, but this might cause the deck to crash if it runs out of RAM/VRAM.

This crash shouldn't happen if you're on SteamOS Beta (version 3.6 or newer) because it uses ZRAM, or if you've increased your swap file size. However memory having to be moved between ZRAM/swap and RAM/VRAM does cause reduced performance too, so more testing will be needed to see if it's better to use FSR3/XeSS this way or not.